MT Nickerson

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I live in #Maine with my wife and daughter, and I am currently getting my EdD while teaching middle school. Free-time is almost non-existent.
This is what allyship looks like.

NY: White Vet kills mentally ill Black man—GOP makes killer a hero😳

WI: White shooter kills 2 people at BLM rally—GOP makes killer a hero😳

TX: White Vet kills BLM marcher—GOP makes killer a hero😳

DC: Black cop kills white insurrectionist—GOP makes insurrectionist a herošŸ¤”

This is what white supremacy looks like

This picture is going to be printed in history books as a turning-point for transgender people in the US. The open question is, which direction will the turn be in?

I don't know, and I don't have ideas for what I can do, but we are on the cusp of big, scary changes that will affect everyone, not just trans people, not just minorities.

If you were waiting for a call to action, here it is. They just banned her from the MT House using the rules of decorum. What better metaphor for where we are?

Elon Musk lost $13 billion in 24 hours on Thursday, and he’s still the world’s second richest person

Don't tell me billionaires can't afford a wealth tax.

Something has gone terribly wrong when Fox News can claim a tax write-off for its $787M defamation settlement, yet school teachers only get a measly $300 deduction for buying their own supplies.

Fuck off with calling all these anti trans and anti gay laws "controversial." They're hate laws. They're fascism. They're evil.

Journalists are going to "both sides" fascism until they are literally executed by the fascists.

The idea that you need a gun for protection, because you’re going to save yourself from something or you’re going to save someone else from something, because there’s a good guy with a gun saving lives, needs to end if our country and society are to ever make any progress.

Because this is how they get used the vast majority of the time, or by law enforcement wrongly shooting people to death or to devastating injury.

Too many people with too many guns- this is what you get.

4/ #Dominion CEO John Poulos calls settlement with #Fox "historic": "Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that caused enormous damage to my company... nothing can ever make up for that."
Fox settled and had to admit their guilt. Trial would have been nice, but this is a start.

This is a fantastic bloody article by @mmasnick for Techdirt and you should read it if you care about who controls your speech.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar

I get it. I totally get it. Every tech dude comes along and has this thought: ā€œhey, we’ll be the free speech social media site. We won’t do any moderation beyond what’s required.ā€ Even Twitter init…

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